Why Austerity KillsJoachim Kasten
2014-11-24 6:47 AMThe poorest and weakest persons must pay the price for misguided political decisions. Political-economic decisions decide over the life and death of persons. The New Deal stands for an effective debt reduction. Germany has been an active driver of austerity. (text/plain)

Piketty's Big DataRainer Rilling and Robert Misik
2014-11-17 4:44 AMThe empirical-historical analysis of the top incomes and their wealth are in the center with Thomas Piketty's "Capital" (2014). The share of the top 10% was never below 60% from 1917 to 2012. A wealth tax is vital to reverse the exploding inequality. (text/plain)

Ferguson: an episode in the war classInternational Communist Party
2014-10-31 7:04 AMOn August 9 in Ferguson, a small suburb of St. Louis, a cop killed Michael Brown firing 6 bullets into him: this young black man, unarmed, with his arms raised in the air, had made the mistake of not responding to his order to walk on the sidewalk. Michael Brown was left like a dog in the street for several hours without even his parents allowed to come close to his body. (image/jpeg)

Neoliberalism has brought out the worst inusPaul Verhaeghe
2014-10-27 10:41 AMBullying used to be confined to schools; now it is a common feature of the workplace. This is a typical symptom of the impotent venting their frustration on the weak – in psychology it’s known as displaced aggression. There is a buried sense of fear, ranging from performance anxiety to a broader social fear of the threatening other. (text/plain)

No Redistribution Without the Social StateNorman Wagner and Mattias Schnetzer
2014-10-20 4:37 AMIn Austria 30 percent of the gross domestic product is spent on social services (not including education spending)...Since the 1990s social security has been increasingly discussed as a financial burden and less as a social achievement (text/plain)

Down with the Imperialist War in Iraq and Syria!PCInt
2014-10-12 2:00 AMIn early August the American government decided to launch a limited “humanitarian action” – in the form of mass bombing! – in Iraq, after an international campaign to mobilize public opinion over the plight of the Yazidi and Christian minorities who have been threatened with “genocide” by the advance of Islamist rebels of “the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant” (better known by the acronym ISIS). (text/plain)

Asian Socialism Conference in the PhilippinesParty of the Laboring Masses (PLM)
2014-09-26 3:40 AMThe Asian Socialism Conference will be held in Manila from November 28 to 29, 2014. The conference will be capped by the participation of guests and delegates to the November 30 rally in Manila to commemorate Bonifacio Day, a national hero who led the armed struggle in the revolution against Spain. (image/jpeg)

Thinkers replaced by Social Controllers on massive scale.Anthony Ravlich
2014-08-19 6:11 AMThe following is a clarification re prev article. It says thinkers are being replaced by social controllers because truth is the major threat to the dominant elite, secular liberal collectivists.
Also, explains how Corporations are highly favored. (text/plain)

Self-Determination Means Market DeterminationFranz Schandl and Gotz Eisenberg
2014-08-08 7:30 AMWe face the continuing dissolution of traditional types, forms and rules, not a new type, a new form or a new rule... What was once called estrangement or objectification should appear as workers' own interest. .. Karl Polanyi spoke of a dis-embedded economy. (text/plain)

$5.3 Trillion DailyUlrike Herrmann
2014-07-31 7:22 AMEliminating currency speculation would be simple. The big central banks, the American Fed, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Japanese Central Bank...$5.3 trillion whirl through the world daily seeking lucrative currency bets. (text/plain)

Our Land, Our Businessgrl
2014-07-29 4:40 PMRight now, millions of people are being thrown off their land because large corporations are being given special rights. The World Bank is driving this trend with its Doing Business rankings. (text/plain)

Memorandum 2014study group on Alternative Economic Policy
2014-07-29 4:01 AMBoth Germany and the US follow an economic policy without enlightenment. Slight economic stimulation will not solve problems of mass unemployment and corporate welfare. Tax evasion of corporations and tax cuts for the super-rich lead to suffering and a revenue crisis. (text/plain)

The "Great Transformation" of the 21st CenturyJoachim Bischoff and Christoph Lieber
2014-07-02 4:33 AMAn end of the Great Crisis is not insight at the beginning of the 21st century... The regime of finance-market driven accumulation has not brought forth any new formation of capitalism capable of development. (text/plain)